The Most Important Skill You Need

A long held career axiom states, “As long as you have the right job skills, you will always be able to get a job.” In today’s crowded and competitive job market this is still true, but under going a significant shift. With this in mind, what are the job skills that will make you stand out in the crowd? The most common answer is the “hard” skills such as engineering, computer programming, accounting, medicine, etc.

There is growing momentum that identifies Emotional Intelligence as an important job skill. Work culture is in a seismic shift that should improve the work place as leaders/managers/employees possess people skills along with other hard skills. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report identifies emotional intelligence as one of the top ten job skills in 2020.